Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!

Cue

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Injuries to the cyclist, I meant.

You say injury, I say lesson.

As if the traffic lights aren't enough of an obstruction, we have to sit through a full extra sequence whilst some bloke executes a seven-point U-turn, using all five lanes, rather than going round Gaol Square or using Greyfriars Place.

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This seems to be a fairly regular thing, I've seen it happen too. If you're coming up from Wickes and co and turning right it's a huge pain as the green light for that route is incredibly short and you have to just sit there while some bellend does a U-Turn where he shouldn't be. There isn't a sign to say no U-Turns any more is there? Pretty sure there used to be
 
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luckylady

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had a bit of a giggle at a bloke in a big blue motor on chase view lane on sunday, couldnt even reverse 12 ft to a pull in, V's up at me and everything, in the end had to drive up the bank and around him!
 

PeterD

ST16 Represent.
Driving up Marston Road past the four crosses, as I approach the pharmacist I see a cyclist coming down, I think oh he will pop up on to the pavement at the newsagents, nope carries on down the road, I said its one way, his response was it’s only a bike. Sorry if it was you @tek-monkey
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Driving up Marston Road past the four crosses, as I approach the pharmacist I see a cyclist coming down, I think oh he will pop up on to the pavement at the newsagents, nope carries on down the road, I said its one way, his response was it’s only a bike. Sorry if it was you @tek-monkey

Lol, not me mate. I ride my bike like I do the motorbike, although I do sometimes stay left on roundabouts.
 

Cue

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Another cyclist...

Just watched him go up Corp St towards the B5066, we all stop at the lights by Prospect Road and he goes past all the cars and through the red. Apparently pretending to be a car is something he only does when it's favourable.
 

Withnail

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He was certainly on the road today, i know so coz we shared it - i have a feeling he may even have 'drafted' me for a bit. Reader, i didn't dare look back...

In rather uplifting news he stopped at both of the sets of lights that beckoned us - including the Riverway/Hough/Lichfield Rd X-roads, which is where i have mostly seen him err on the red-light-transgression front in the past - on our run in to town. Mostly, one suspects, because he appears to be working assiduously on his track stand skillz.

Which are on the way to becoming rather impressive - certainly more impressive than simply being a dick and barrelling through the lights dropping curses on his neighbour's houses.

He's already doing better, on the track stand skillz front, than i can do, and i'm not too shabby at it.

Chapeau Mr. Angry Cyclist!
 

Cue

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My driving instructor had warned me about a nutter on a bike... I wonder if she was talking about him.
 

Cue

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Just had to drive 40 down the 50 on beaconside, sometimes dropping down to 30/35

Why? A motorcyclist who decided that was the maximum speed to go. They speed up and slow down a lot quicker than cars which makes keep a good distance quite difficult too.

Bizarrely, when we arrived at the Weston road roundabout they did a full circle back up beaconside.

I seem to keep ending up behind people going slow along that road.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Just had to drive 40 down the 50 on beaconside, sometimes dropping down to 30/35

Why? A motorcyclist who decided that was the maximum speed to go. They speed up and slow down a lot quicker than cars which makes keep a good distance quite difficult too.

Bizarrely, when we arrived at the Weston road roundabout they did a full circle back up beaconside.

I seem to keep ending up behind people going slow along that road.
50mph is the max permissable speed on that stretch of road, not a target that must be achieved. Same as all speed limits.

As the Honourable @John Marwood posted not so long ago. If you want to get there earlier get up earlier.
 

Cue

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50mph is the max permissable speed on that stretch of road, not a target that must be achieved. Same as all speed limits.

As the Honourable @John Marwood posted not so long ago. If you want to get there earlier get up earlier.

40 was his top. He was often 35 and 15 under the limit is most definitely bordering on unsafe. It causes road rage and unsafe overtaking
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
40 was his top. He was often 35 and 15 under the limit is most definitely bordering on unsafe. It causes road rage and unsafe overtaking
How is it unsafe?

It may be extremely frustrating for you but he/she is perfectly within their rights to do that speed if that is what they want.

No sense bitching about it, they have just as much right to do 35 as you have to do 50.
 

Carole

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40 was his top. He was often 35 and 15 under the limit is most definitely bordering on unsafe. It causes road rage and unsafe overtaking

Driving within the speed limit doesn't cause road rage.

Road rage is due to an impatient driver not accepting that another driver may not want to drive to the maximum speed limit.

You can only get road rage if you allow yourself to, if you are not able to manage your emotions or able to empathise with others.
 
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